{"id":99339,"date":"2021-10-12T09:19:50","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T14:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/?p=99339"},"modified":"2021-10-12T09:19:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T14:19:46","slug":"nick-patrick-looks-back-on-wwe-closing-deep-south-wrestling-discusses-his-issues-with-john-laurinaitis-recalls-vince-mcmahon-giving-john-cena-more-on-air-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/2021\/10\/12\/nick-patrick-looks-back-on-wwe-closing-deep-south-wrestling-discusses-his-issues-with-john-laurinaitis-recalls-vince-mcmahon-giving-john-cena-more-on-air-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Patrick looks back on WWE closing Deep South Wrestling, discusses his issues with John Laurinaitis, recalls Vince McMahon giving John Cena more on-air freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"prowr-285087736\" class=\"prowr-apple-podcast-button-link prowr-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/pro-wrestling-boom-podcast\/id1365989370\" aria-label=\"SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?fit=320%2C78&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?w=320&ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?resize=300%2C73&ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" width=\"320\" height=\"78\"   \/><\/a><\/div><p><b>By Jason Powell<\/b>, ProWrestling.net Editor (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prowrestlingnet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@prowrestlingnet<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><b>The Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling Podcast with Nick Patrick<br \/>\nHost: JP John Poz<br \/>\nTwitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TwoManPowerTrip\">@TwoManPowerTrip<\/a><br \/>\nWebsite: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmptempire.com\/\">www.tmptempire.com<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Interview available at <a href=\"https:\/\/tmptow.podomatic.com\/\">Tmptow.podomatic.com<\/a><\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Mistreatment by the WWE:<\/b> &#8220;And I became kind of verbal about that [his frustrations] towards the end of my run so that was another deciding factor on me \u2014 they [WWE] knew I was \u2014 they knew that I had-had my fill and they had treated my family very badly, the Deep South [Wrestling] family and dad [Jody Hamilton]. When we decided to close it, heck, all I had done was call my dad and say, \u2018Hey, Jody, things aren\u2019t working out. We\u2019re gonna shut this thing down and move it down to Florida\u2019 and it [would\u2019ve] been fine, it [would\u2019ve] been okay, but what they did is they tried to sneak in while he was at home one night because they had keys and they had a couple of trainers [that] had keys to the place and they had the trainers go down there and meet \u2018em and they was moving all the equipment out that belonged to them so that when my dad would show up to work the next day, he\u2019d show up to a half-empty arena.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And one of the kids called him and told him about it. So he showed up and you know, pops got a license to carry and that was his warehouse so he showed up packing and they were very, very careful about what they touched because he let them know that he wouldn\u2019t be very friendly about somebody touching his stuff, you know? So that went very badly and you can thrust me out and try and do whatever to me because I had to have a job. I had two sons I was trying to get through school and I was gonna take it for as long as I could but, when you mess with my family, that\u2019s a line that doesn\u2019t get crossed, you know? And once that happened, I no longer had any more respect and I looked for a way \u2014 and if they wanted to have a head-on collision, then I was ready to be the one that they had the head-to-head collision with and they knew that and I let it be known. I didn\u2019t hide the fact. I didn\u2019t go up there challenging people but when they tried once or twice to see how thick-skinned I was gonna be, I looked them right in the eye and showed them I was no longer that person and they went, \u2018Oh, okay.\u2019 So, and then shortly after that I got my notice, but I didn\u2019t care at that point, you know what I mean?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>On his fight with Johnny Ace [John Laurinaitis]:<\/b> &#8220;I\u2019m sure it was Johnny Ace [who made the decision to send WWE to the Deep South warehouse] because Vince [McMahon] doesn\u2019t know the inner \u2014 but I did say something to him one time actually too so, it could\u2019ve been that, I don\u2019t know. I didn\u2019t like \u2014 I wasn\u2019t crude but, they were busting me out about something and I told Laurinaitis right in front of him, and Vince was sitting right there. I said, \u2018Look man, it really ain\u2019t right. You\u2019re not gonna talk to me like that\u2019 and Vince said \u2014 it was at the Gorilla Position and he threw his hands up and said, \u2018Nope, let\u2019s take this somewhere to another place, to another room\u2019 and I said, \u2018By all means, let\u2019s take this to another room and you come too.\u2019 So, that was probably the end of my deal right there when I said that. Nothing [happened after that]. I was going in there to fight and they didn\u2019t even have the meeting. Didn\u2019t even happen. I went on home and I was waiting. It didn\u2019t happen. I said, \u2018Well let\u2019s go to this room and meet. Come on, everybody come because I want you to see what happens.\u2019 I was mad. I was gonna fight whoever wanted to go, and I\u2019d probably [gotten] whooped but it didn\u2019t matter. I would\u2019ve fought still.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Vince McMahon first greenlit John Cena to have more freedom on-screen:<\/b> &#8220;Vince [McMahon] would come up and say \u2014 when I was up there [WWE], I\u2019ll never forget the meeting. I was sitting there and he walks to us, \u2018By the way, that young John Cena kid, he\u2019s been given the green light so all you writers and all you agents, bear that in mind when you\u2019re putting his stuff together.\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>How Laurinaitis was able to seamlessly transition into being one of Vince McMahon\u2019s key employees:<\/b> You never know [if WCW was being tanked intentionally]. If you look at how things went and the key players that was there, what was John Laurinaitis doing there all that time? And how did he step so smoothly from being the guy calling the shots at WCW to being Vince [McMahon\u2019s] right hand man? Doing all of Vince\u2019s dirty work. Yeah [he\u2019s been at WWE for 20 years]. Any time they need people cut, who do they bring in? They bring in John. John gets a percent of all the money that he saves \u2018em from cutting people and he cuts \u2018em to the bone. Used to be that way [getting a percentage from cuts]. I know that was the deal Bill Watts had when he came to WCW back in the day for a very short time. But he pissed everybody off so bad. He didn\u2019t last very long.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>The cold shoulder also came from members of the WWE production crew:<\/b> &#8220;In fact, there were one or two crew people because they actually thought they could do it too. There was two different people that I said, \u2018Let me tell you something, I have never, ever once treated you with disrespect, and I want you to make sure that you don\u2019t ever, ever again treat me with disrespect or we\u2019re gonna have a really bad problem. It\u2019ll cost me my job and cost you probably even worse.\u2019 You know, so, and there was two different ones I had to say that to because everybody was under the impression that it was okay to bust our \u2014 whatever \u2014 it was their God given right, it wasn\u2019t. It was a business. It was all business. It wasn\u2019t a personal thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>Other topics include his WCW run, Starrcade 1997 controversy, Sting, Hulk Hogan, Eric Bischoff, Kevin Sullivan, and more. 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